Luke 21:1
AND looking up, he saw the rich men casting their gifts into the treasury.
The New Testament, American Bible Union (1865)
In The King James Version
And he looked up, and saw the rich men casting their gifts into the treasury.
In Context
2And he saw also a certain poor widow casting in thither two mites.
Cross References
Matthew 27:6And the chief priests took the silver pieces, and said: It is not lawful to put them into the treasury, since it is the price of blood.
Mark 12:41And sitting over against the treasury, he beheld how the people cast money into the treasury; and many that were rich cast in much.
Matthew Henry on Luke 21:1
In this chapter we have, I. The notice Christ took, and the approbation he gave, of a poor widow that cast two mites into the treasury, ver. 1-4 . II. A prediction of future events, in answer to his disciples' enquiries concerning them, ver. 5-7 . 1. Of what should happen between that and the destruction of Jerusalem—false Christs arising, bloody wars and persecutions of Christ's followers, ver. 8-19 . 2. Of that destruction itself, ver. 20-24 . 3. Of the second coming of Jesus Christ to judge the world, under the… Read the whole commentary →